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The campus is proposed by the Bay of Plenty Tertiary Partnership (TTP), made up of four tertiary institutions - Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Waiariki Institute of Technology and University of Waikato.

The trust's funding joins the $15 million promised by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council through its Regional Infrastructure Fund, the donation of Durham St carpark land from Tauranga City Council, and financial support from the TTP.

It's hoped that over its two stages of construction, the campus would provide about 427 construction jobs and 272 tertiary operations jobs and mean more than $49 million in direct construction expenditures.

The campus is a great initiative and would certainly help bring the central city back to life.

Students living, working and spending money in the central city will be a positive boost.

I'm used to not being cool. I've never been the most fashionable or trendy person and I am a bit of a stickler for the rules.

This week new figures revealed scooter injuries in the Western Bay rose from 116 at a taxpayer cost of $25,017 in 2011 to 347 at $106,702 last year.

The number of children getting injuries had almost tripled. The increase was greatest in 5-14 year olds, from 80 to 167 during that period.

Fractures to the arms, and head and facial injuries - particularly dental injuries - were most common, with some occurring when hand grips came off handlebars and when scooters folded unexpectedly, ACC said.

Safekids director Ann Weaver says although scooters provide children with valuable exercise, it is important to use safety equipment such as helmets, which are not mandatory for scooter users.

I hate it when I see children and adults on bikes, scooters, skateboards without helmets.

If they intend to share the road with motorists they need to take every safety precaution available.

Even messing around in the skatepark can cause serious injuries.

Parents hate to see their children hurt or injured, so why don't they all make sure their children have the best protection?

Apparently wearing helmets isn't cool, but it's not about being cool. It's about staying safe and preventing serious injury. People need to wake up and realise it is a simple step to help prevent avoidable injuries.

It will take up to eight weeks for Guinness World Records to go through the evidence the polytech provided and recognise the record. The polytech has to provide photographic and video evidence and independent official witness statements. Participants, who included students, staff and others involved with orientation week, had to be filmed entering and leaving the record area one at a time and filming had to be continuous.

The record stood at 178 and the team at the Polytech are positive they smashed the record.

I guess it is something each person could claim - they helped break a world record.